NB12's SS Log

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Age: 20
Height: 5 11
Weight: 200 lbs (good amount of fat)


I started to do SS with my dad a few years ago while I was in high school and living at home. Loved the weight lifting but I didn't do a good job of keeping a log, missed a lot of workouts, let myself lose motivation and then when I went to college I pretty much stopped working on any kind of fitness aside from the occasional pick up basketball game with friends. Was moving in to a new place at the end of December and realized how much weaker I had become compared to when I had moved in and decided it was time to get back to squats and deadlifts. I've been doing SS again for a couple of weeks now and will do a back track of my earlier workouts and then start adding here as I go.

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1/7/2015:First time squatting again in almost two years. Took things very light and very slow. Wanted to make sure I still had my form right.

Squat: 3x5 70 lb
Bench Press: 3x5 70 lb
Power Clean: 5x3 70 lb

1/9/2015

Squat: 3x5 95 lb
Press: 3x5 75 lb
Deadlift: 1x5 95 lb

1/12/2015:

Squat: 3x5 105 lbs
Bench: 3x5 95 lbs
Power Clean: 5x3 95 lbs

1/14/2015:

Squat: 3x5 115 lbs
Press: 3x5 85 lbs
Deadlift: 1x5 115 lbs

1/16/2015:

Squat: 3x5 120 lbs
Bench: 3x5 115 lbs
Power Clean: 5x3 85 lbs

1/19/2015:

Squat: 3x5 125 lbs
Press: 3x5 90 lbs
Deadlift: 1x5 135 lbs

1/21/2015:

Squat: 3x5 130 lbs
Bench: 3x5 120 lbs
Power Clean: 3x5 90lbs

I began very light just to make sure my form was in good shape, so I began with some larger increment jumps for the weights, but now I'm only going to increase by 5-10 lbs each workout to make sure I'm still progressing each workout. I haven't been having any real difficulty with these weights and I haven't been sore at all but I don't think I should keep making large jumps for the sake of both progression and keeping my form good.

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1/23/2015:

Squat: 3x5 135 lbs
Press: 3x5 95 lbs
Deadlift: 1x5 145 lbs

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1/26/2015:

Squat: 3x5 140 lbs
Bench: 125 lbs
Power Clean: 5x3 95 lbs

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1/28/2015:

Squat: 3x5 145 lb
Press: 3x5 100 lb
Deadlift: 3x5 155 lb

1/30/2015:

Squat: 3x5 150 lbs
Bench Press: 3x5 135 lbs
Power Clean: 100 lbs

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2/1/2015:

Squat: 3x5 160 lb
Press: 3x5 105 lb
Deadlift: 1x5 175 lb


2/4/2015: This was my worst day squatting. I wasn't feeling great before going to the gym, maybe I hadn't eaten enough, maybe i'm just a little under the weather or maybe it was just one of those days but whatever it was it was not good.

Squat: 5,4,3 at 165 lbs. I just barely made the 5th rep on the first set, stalled on the 4th and 3rd reps of the following sets. shitty day
Bench Press: 3x5 140 lbs
Power Clean: 5x3 105 lbs.

Bench and Power clean felt fine. Ate more than usual today and will do tomorrow. Gonna try to get an extra hour of sleep too and see if that will help.

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2/6/2015:

Squat: 3x5 165 lbs. Not sure what the problem was last workout.
Press: 3x5 110 lbs
Deadlift: 1x5 185 lbs

2/9/2014:

Squat: 3x5 170 lbs
Bench Press: 3x5 145 lbs
Power Clean: 5x3 115 lbs

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2/11/2015:

Squat: 3x5 175 lbs

Press: 5/5/3 115 lbs. Got the first two sets of 5, barely making the 5th rep on the second set. Got set up for the third set, hyping myself up to do 5 more. Got three, started feeling weak, began grinding out the fourth and the bar just stops about 1/2 way up. I pushed as hard as I could but the damn thing just wouldn't move. 5/5/3 at 115. Sucks

Deadlift: 1x5 195 lbs